According to a Washington Post columnist and associate editor who has covered the White House for decades, former President Donald Trump was determined to hide his top secret files from the public.
Eugene Robinson told MSNBC's Ari Melber on Friday that presidents don't accidentally end up with sensitive files when they leave the White House. They are not supposed to take anything from the National Archives.
Robinson said that the fact that agents carried out 11 sets of classified documents after their search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago home is "unprecedented."
Robinson said that every president has been very careful with top secret information.
The most sensitive information doesn't lie in the White House. It is not in the office. The basement of Mar-a-Lago is where it is located. He used the acronym for "sensitive compartmented information" to describe it.
He said that it was handled very carefully. It was looked at and examined and talked about and then it was tucked away into secure carriers and taken back to its vault.
Top secret information that was seized is supposed to be kept in a secure facility. Some of the classified documents were believed to be related to nuclear weapons, which was a key reason for the urgent search, according to sources.
According to the warrant, Trump is being investigated for possibly violating the Espionage Act, obstruction of justice, and removing and destroying official documents. The documents didn't give any details.
The Espionage Act forbids anyone from obtaining defense information with the intent of using it against the U.S.
The Donald Trump administration was unlike any other administration in the history of this country. No other administration would have done the same thing.
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